Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iroquois-style conciliatory gesture, I urge that a representative of the Faculty of Humanities--perhaps Gates himself--be invited to participate. Thus the humanities departments can establish a new role for themselves, one that will help preserve Harvard's past and enhance its future. --Anthony Vermandois The author is a student at the Graduate School of Design
...number of other solutions have been suggested, but most have been awkward and clumsy, and therefore not solutions. This one works. --Myron S. Kaufmann '43 The author is an editor of The Crimson
...events. The first actually happened. In 1894 a fast-moving fire engulfed the Delavan House hotel in Albany, New York. Fifteen people died, mostly kitchen help and chambermaids trapped in top-floor workers' quarters later found to have sealed emergency exits. The second event is pure fiction by the author of such raffish and elegiac novels as Legs, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Ironweed. In 1908 Giles Fitzroy, a prominent Albany physician, tracks his wife to a Manhattan hotel, where he finds her in the compromising company of an actress and a playwright named Edward Daugherty. Enraged and humiliated...
...could not have been easy for Bernhard Goetz, left--dubbed the "subway gunman" by New York City tabloids--to hear himself referred to in a courtroom as "a nerd, a geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about...
Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, is the author of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...